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It Is Not Often That A Man Can Be Said

to have "lived all his days," so truly as in the case of Thomas Chalmers. The oldest reminiscences of him that have been preserved, present the image of a young and ardent......

Modern Martyrdom.

RAILWAY accidents have attained their climax—in-Belgium a Queen has nearly been smashed, and in England a Bishop burned. Bishop Philpotts has undergone a fearful ordeal of fire,......

Tenure Of British India.

IN a recent debate, alluding to the possible settlement of soldiers in India, Lord Ellenborough said that "colonization would be se- paration." He took a purely military view of......

Lord Ashburton's Pamphlet.*

June 8. 1847. The act of 1844 for regulating the issue of Bank-notes separates the Bank of England into two departments, one for issues, the other for banking. The Bank- ing......